Needed: Iguana ideas

[Maddie2]

My middle school son needs to make an life-size iguana for his school's rainforest project. Does anyone have any fabulous ideas?

A few years ago, our older child had to make a lemur for this project. We took a sock monkey pattern and modified it into a lemur - using a black/white striped sock for the tail.

I can sew and I enjoy doing some crafts, though it has been a while since I've done much of it. I'd prefer a project without sewing though, since with that last project I probably did too much of it for him.

We were thinking about the possibility of using paper mache, but we are not committed to it. Any and all ideas are most humbly welcome!

Thank you!

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

Paper machee! If you used balled up paper (like towling) to make the body I think it would be easy. I made a huge bear this way once (though it wouldnt harden and I got mad and filled the sucker with plaster of paris... Still got a A)

 

[Maddie2]

Thank you funkychunkymonkey!

We worked on the iguana yesterday and ended up using 2 2 liter soda bottles cut up/rearranged/taped together for a base and then balled up tissue paper and formed a head, legs and tail. Then, we used masking tape to hold it all together and paper mached green tissue paper pieces on it. We are not finished yet, but it is looking pretty good. We hope to finish it tonight or tomorrow.

I don't think my son had high hopes of this turning out overly well, so it has been fun to see his reaction to our ability to create something out of nothing afterall.

 

[sanantoniomom]

Just thought I would see how this turned out. We are faced with trying to figure out how to make one this week-end. We aren't the craftiest bunch, so any insight/thoughts would be greatly appreaciated!!

 

[Maddie2]

Just finding your post --- hope your project went well/is going well!

My son's iguana turned out pretty good. We used to do crafts a lot when our kids were little, but they are teens now, so it's been a while.

Have fun!